Toil Quotes

342 Toil quotes by 252 unique authors

Up! up! my friend, and quit your books, Or surely you 'll grow double! Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks! Why all this… — William Wordsworth
Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions… — Frank Chodorov
When Heaven is about to confer a great office on a man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with… — Mencius
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love… — Robert Southey
Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a ray of brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of disquietude! — Washington Irving
From toil he wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night; Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace… — Thomas Gray
Who does his task from day to day and meets whatever comes his way, Believing God has willed it so, has found real greatness here… — Edgar Guest
Mine is the horny hand of toil. — John Singer Sargent
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither… — Pope Pius X
I am the laziest man in the world. I invented all those things to save myself from toil. — Benjamin Franklin
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. — Oscar Wilde
There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study. — William Graham Sumner
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear… — Seneca the Younger
Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry! — Alan Bradley
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble; Never… — John Dryden
We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their… — William H. Wharton
I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture. — Zane Grey
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread… — Henry Ward Beecher
It can be set down as a broad, general principle that we cannot indulge in idleness and abundance during both the first and second half… — B. C. Forbes
The inmost significance of the exaggerated value which is set upon hard work appears to be this: man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless;… — Josef Pieper
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze… — Nelson Algren
Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness… — Alistair Begg
But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration… — Clement of Alexandria
Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce… — Horatius Bonar

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